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In the 78-year history of the Heisman Trophy, just one primarily defensive player — Charles Woodson, 1997 — has won the award, and that was primarily due to the Michigan cornerback seeing time as both a wide receiver and punt return specialist.
Over the past couple of years, though, defensive players have begun getting their share of stiff-armed attention. Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o became just the second defensive-only player to finish second in the voting, joining Pittsburgh's Hugh Green back in 1980. Nebraska defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh finished fourth in the balloting in 2009, while LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu was a finalist in 2011. Even then, Te'o's Heisman profile was boosted significantly by an embellished human drama while Mathieu's candidacy was aided by his return prowess.
Still, the Heisman has historically been a strictly offensive award. Or, more specifically, a strictly quarterback/running back award — 70 of the 78 winners played one of those two positions, with the trophy going to the former position 11 of the past 12 years.
This year, South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney will enter the 2013 season as one of the front-runners for the most prestigious award in the sport. In fact, Clowney may be the front-runner on some of the preseason watch lists that will be dropping over the next couple of months.
He is, though, just a defensive player. And, if Clowney has his way about it, that won't change, regardless of what it may do for his bid for the Heisman.
"Nah. I have no interest at all in playing offense," Clowney said according to the Greenville News, adding an emphatic, "forget it."
If Johnny Manziel can break through the (redshirt) freshman ceiling, can Clowney be the one to do the same on the defensive side of the ball and without the offensive novelty? If the voting is based who is the best player in college football, and not just the best quarterback or running back in the game, Clowney certainly has the talent and athletic ability — and should have the on-field production — to do just that.
Seeing as the current stable of Heisman voters are as offensive-focused as they come, I won't hold my breath. Hell, when even a man as young as Clowney can see how skewed the Heisman voting is, you can understand why the award is slowly losing its luster.
"It's strange, but that's what the people like, touchdowns and more touchdowns," Clowney. "They don't worry about the sacks and stuff."
Maybe one day such inconsequential things will matter in the minds of voters. Again, though, I won't be holding my breath anytime soon.


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October 15, 2012 – The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has named Aron Anderson planner of its Fire Adapted Communities® (FAC) initiative. Anderson will assist NFPA in providing technical support of its FAC web content, conducting research and developing and providing technical training. He is located in NFPA's Denver, Colorado field office.
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"Aron's broad experience as an emergency management professional and his skills in web development and design, grant research and administration, and planning and training is a valuable asset to our FAC program, and will complement our outreach efforts," said NFPA's Wildland Fire Operations Division manager Dave Nuss. "As a key member of the Division, Aron's knowledge and expertise will help us greatly in furthering our wildfire safety mission."
NFPA's Wildland Fire Operations Division works with organizations across the country and around the globe to raise awareness of wildfire and what residents can do to help prevent loss of lives and property in their community.
"Wildfire activity across the country has increased tremendously in the last few years and NFPA plays an important role in helping communities address their risk for wildfire damage," said Anderson. "I look forward to contributing to the expansion of NFPA's Fire Adapted Communities initiative and working with our partner organizations and agencies to support residents in their efforts to prepare for and adapt to living with wildfire."
Before coming to NFPA, Anderson worked as a resource support analyst for the North Central All-Hazards Region in Colorado and as a research intern for the Adams County (CO) Office of Emergency Management. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Northern Colorado and was awarded numerous incident management system training certifications from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute.
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After officially nominating Mitt Romney for President during the afternoon session of the Republican National Convention, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wrapped up the evening session with a keynote address that electrified the Tampa Times Forum Arena with a clarion call to all Americans who believe our nation can do better (see video and complete text of the speech below this post).
In his speech, without mentioning any names, Christie masterfully addressed the shortcomings of President Obama and his policies. At one point he described the President as having a desire to be loved that runs deeper than his desire to take on the tough issues. "That's what we need to do now. Change polls through the power of our principles. Change polls through the strength of our convictions. Tonight, our duty is to tell the American people the truth", said Christie.He added; "Our problems are big and the solutions will not be painless. We all must share in the sacrifice. Any leader that tells us differently is simply not telling the truth".
Christie's address was an incredibly strong statement of conservative principles that made it clear that Americans can no longer standby and be satisfied with the status quo of politics-as-usual. He cited multiple examples of his leadership in New Jersey that demonstrated how by touching the traditional third rails in politics, New Jersey was energized, not burned.
The New Jersey Governor's well presented case was a little heavy (no pun intended) on himself and light on Mitt Romney. While he spent most of the speech referring to himself on more than 30 occassions, he mentioned Mitt Romney about seven times. Atill, Chrsitie helped set a tone for the coming weeks of the election that places Democrats on a losing playing field.
Full Text of Christie's Speech
Governor of New Jersey
Republican National Convention Keynote Address
August 28, 2012
A New Jersey Republican delivering the keynote address to our national convention, from a state with 700,000 more Democrats than Republicans.
A New Jersey Republican stands before you tonight.
Proud of my party, proud of my state and proud of my country.
I am the son of an Irish father and a Sicilian mother.
My Dad, who I am blessed to have with me here tonight, is gregarious, outgoing and loveable.
My Mom, who I lost 8 years ago, was the enforcer. She made sure we all knew who set the rules.
In the automobile of life, Dad was just a passenger. Mom was the driver.
They both lived hard lives. Dad grew up in poverty. After returning from Army service, he worked at the Breyers Ice Cream plant in the 1950s. With that job and the G.I. bill he put himself through Rutgers University at night to become the first in his family to earn a college degree. Our first family picture was on his graduation day, with Mom beaming next to him, six months pregnant with me.
Mom also came from nothing. She was raised by a single mother who took three buses to get to work every day. And mom spent the time she was supposed to be a kid actually raising children – her two younger siblings. She was tough as nails and didn't suffer fools at all. The truth was she couldn't afford to. She spoke the truth – bluntly, directly and without much varnish.
I am her son.
I was her son as I listened to "Darkness on the Edge of Town" with my high school friends on the Jersey Shore.
I was her son as I moved into a studio apartment with Mary Pat to start a marriage that is now 26 years old.
I was her son as I coached our sons Andrew and Patrick on the fields of Mendham, and as I watched with pride as our daughters Sarah and Bridget marched with their soccer teams in the Labor Day parade.
And I am still her son today, as Governor, following the rules she taught me: to speak from the heart and to fight for your principles. She never thought you get extra credit for just speaking the truth.
The greatest lesson Mom ever taught me, though, was this one: she told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. She said to always pick being respected, that love without respect was always fleeting — but that respect could grow into real, lasting love.
Now, of course, she was talking about women.
But I have learned over time that it applies just as much to leadership. In fact, I think that advice applies to America today more than ever.
I believe we have become paralyzed by our desire to be loved.
Our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity is fleeting and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and emotions of the times.
Our leaders today have decided it is more important to be popular, to do what is easy and say "yes," rather than to say no when "no" is what's required.
In recent years, we as a country have too often chosen the same path.
It's been easy for our leaders to say not us, and not now, in taking on the tough issues. And we've stood silently by and let them get away with it.
But tonight, I say enough.
I say, together, let's make a much different choice. Tonight, we are speaking up for ourselves and stepping up.
We are beginning to do what is right and what is necessary to make our country great again.
We are demanding that our leaders stop tearing each other down, and work together to take action on the big things facing America.
Tonight, we choose respect over love.
We are not afraid. We are taking our country back.
We are the great grandchildren of men and women who broke their backs in the name of American ingenuity; the grandchildren of the Greatest Generation; the sons and daughters of immigrants; the brothers and sisters of everyday heroes; the neighbors of entrepreneurs and firefighters, teachers and farmers, veterans and factory workers and everyone in-between who shows up not just on the big days or the good days, but on the bad days and on the hard days.
Each and every day. All 365 of them.
We are the United States of America.
Now we must lead the way our citizens live. To lead as my mother insisted I live, not by avoiding truths, especially the hard ones, but by facing up to them and being the better for it.
We cannot afford to do anything less.
I know because this was the challenge in New Jersey.
When I came into office, I could continue on the same path that led to wealth, jobs and people leaving the state or I could do the job the people elected me to do – to do the big things.
There were those who said it couldn't be done. The problems were too big, too politically charged, too broken to fix. But we were on a path we could no longer afford to follow.
They said it was impossible to cut taxes in a state where taxes were raised 115 times in eight years. That it was impossible to balance a budget at the same time, with an $11 billion deficit. Three years later, we have three balanced budgets with lower taxes.
We did it.
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics. To take on the public sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefit system that was headed to bankruptcy.
With bipartisan leadership we saved taxpayers $132 billion over 30 years and saved retirees their pension.
We did it.
They said it was impossible to speak the truth to the teachers union. They were just too powerful. Real teacher tenure reform that demands accountability and ends the guarantee of a job for life regardless of performance would never happen.
For the first time in 100 years with bipartisan support, we did it.
The disciples of yesterday's politics underestimated the will of the people. They assumed our people were selfish; that when told of the difficult problems, tough choices and complicated solutions, they would simply turn their backs, that they would decide it was every man for himself.
Instead, the people of New Jersey stepped up and shared in the sacrifice.
They rewarded politicians who led instead of politicians who pandered.
We shouldn't be surprised.
We've never been a country to shy away from the truth. History shows that we stand up when it counts and it's this quality that has defined our character and our significance in the world.
I know this simple truth and I'm not afraid to say it: our ideas are right for America and their ideas have failed America.
Let's be clear with the American people tonight. Here's what we believe as Republicans and what they believe as Democrats.
We believe in telling hard working families the truth about our country's fiscal realities. Telling them what they already know – the math of federal spending doesn't add up.
With $5 trillion in debt added over the last four years, we have no other option but to make the hard choices, cut federal spending and fundamentally reduce the size of government.
They believe that the American people don't want to hear the truth about the extent of our fiscal difficulties and need to be coddled by big government.
They believe the American people are content to live the lie with them.
We believe in telling seniors the truth about our overburdened entitlements.
We know seniors not only want these programs to survive, but they just as badly want them secured for their grandchildren.
Seniors are not selfish.
They believe seniors will always put themselves ahead of their grandchildren. So they prey on their vulnerabilities and scare them with misinformation for the cynical purpose of winning the next election.
Their plan: whistle a happy tune while driving us off the fiscal cliff, as long as they are behind the wheel of power.
We believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed to put students first so that America can compete.
Teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
We believe that we should honor and reward the good ones while doing what's best for our nation's future – demanding accountability, higher standards and the best teacher in every classroom.
They believe the educational establishment will always put themselves ahead of children. That self-interest trumps common sense.
They believe in pitting unions against teachers, educators against parents, and lobbyists against children.
They believe in teacher's unions.
We believe in teachers.
We believe that if we tell the people the truth they will act bigger than the pettiness of Washington, D.C.
We believe it's possible to forge bipartisan compromise and stand up for conservative principles.
It's the power of our ideas, not of our rhetoric, that attracts people to our Party.
We win when we make it about what needs to be done; we lose when we play along with their game of scaring and dividing.
For make no mistake, the problems are too big to let the American people lose – the slowest economic recovery in decades, a spiraling out of control deficit, an education system that's failing to compete in the world.
It doesn't matter how we got here. There is enough blame to go around.
What matters now is what we do.
I know we can fix our problems.
When there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than worrying about winning re-election, it's possible to work together, achieve principled compromise and get results.
The people have no patience for any other way.
It's simple.
We need politicians to care more about doing something and less about being something.
Believe me, if we can do this in a blue state with a conservative Republican Governor, Washington is out of excuses.
Leadership delivers.
Leadership counts.
Leadership matters.
We have this leader for America.
We have a nominee who will tell us the truth and who will lead with conviction. And now he has a running mate who will do the same.
We have Governor Mitt Romney and Congressman Paul Ryan, and we must make them our next President and Vice President.
Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create good paying private sector jobs again in America.
Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future and burying our economy.
Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world's greatest health care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor.
We ended an era of absentee leadership without purpose or principle in New Jersey.
It's time to end this era of absentee leadership in the Oval Office and send real leaders to the White House.
America needs Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and we need them right now.
There is doubt and fear for our future in every corner of our country.
These feelings are real.
This moment is real.
It's a moment like this where some skeptics wonder if American greatness is over.
How those who have come before us had the spirit and tenacity to lead America to a new era of greatness in the face of challenge.
Not to look around and say "not me," but to say, "YES, ME."
I have an answer tonight for the skeptics and the naysayers, the dividers and the defenders of the status quo.
I have faith in us.
I know we can be the men and women our country calls on us to be.
I believe in America and her history.
There's only one thing missing now. Leadership. It takes leadership that you don't get from reading a poll.
You see, Mr. President – real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.
That's what we need to do now.
Change polls through the power of our principles.
Change polls through the strength of our convictions.
Tonight, our duty is to tell the American people the truth.
Our problems are big and the solutions will not be painless. We all must share in the sacrifice. Any leader that tells us differently is simply not telling the truth.
I think tonight of the Greatest Generation.
We look back and marvel at their courage – overcoming the Great Depression, fighting Nazi tyranny, standing up for freedom around the world.
Now it's our time to answer history's call.
For make no mistake, every generation will be judged and so will we.
What will our children and grandchildren say of us? Will they say we buried our heads in the sand, we assuaged ourselves with the creature comforts we've acquired, that our problems were too big and we were too small, that someone else should make a difference because we can't?
Or will they say we stood up and made the tough choices needed to preserve our way of life?
I don't know about you, but I don't want my children and grandchildren to have to read in a history book what it was like to live in an American Century.
I don't want their only inheritance to be an enormous government that has overtaxed, overspent and over-borrowed a great people into second-class citizenship.
I want them to live in a second American Century.
A second American Century of strong economic growth where those who are willing to work hard will have good paying jobs to support their families and reach their dreams.
A second American Century where real American exceptionalism is not a political punch line, but is evident to everyone in the world just by watching the way our government conducts its business and everyday Americans live their lives.
A second American Century where our military is strong, our values are sure, our work ethic is unmatched and our Constitution remains a model for anyone in the world struggling for liberty.
Let us choose a path that will be remembered for generations to come. Standing strong for freedom will make the next century as great an American century as the last one.
This is the American way.
We have never been victims of destiny.
We have always been masters of our own.
I won't be part of the generation that fails that test and neither will you.
It's now time to stand up. There's no time left to waste.
If you're willing to stand up with me for America's future, I will stand up with you.
If you're willing to fight with me for Mitt Romney, I will fight with you.
If you're willing to hear the truth about the hard road ahead, and the rewards for America that truth will bear, I'm here to begin with you this new era of truth-telling.
Tonight, we choose the path that has always defined our nation's history.
Tonight, we finally and firmly answer the call that so many generations have had the courage to answer before us.
Tonight, we stand up for Mitt Romney as the next President of the United States.
And, together, we stand up once again for American greatness.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- As he watched his son coach against the team he guided for 14 seasons Saturday, former Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan revealed he was indeed poised to return as the team's coach before the 2018 season, but that "it didn't work out."
The fact that Broncos president of football operations/general manager John Elway had extensive discussions with Shanahan after the Broncos had finished 5-11 in Vance Joseph's first season as coach has been well known. But Saturday, as Shanahan watched his son Kyle lead the San Francisco 49ers in joint practices against the franchise he led to two Super Bowl wins, Mike Shanahan spoke openly about his near return to the sideline.
"I was close, I was close,'' Shanahan said. "One thing that has to happen is you all have to be on the same page. One thing you've got to make sure of when you are a head football coach that the owner, the GM, the quarterback are all on the same page. And if it doesn't happen the chances of you winning the Super Bowl aren't very good. ... I had a great conversation with John as everybody knows, it didn't work out, sometimes it works out for the right reasons.''
At the time Elway and team CEO Joe Ellis were open to a Shanahan return, but there was some feeling in the organization that Shanahan's return should only come after a full coaching search with other candidates being interviewed as well. Ellis was also with the team when owner Pat Bowlen fired Shanahan after an 8-8 finish in the 2008 season.
Shortly after the 2017 season ended, and a deal to re-hire Shanahan didn't happen, Elway announced Joseph would then return for the 2018 season. The Broncos finished 6-10 last season and Joseph was fired as Vic Fangio was hired in January.
While Shanahan had attended a variety of team functions in the years since his firing, he had not attended a Broncos practice since that 2008 season until July 20, just after this year's training camp opened. Shanahan said Elway, Fangio and offensive coordinator Rich Scangarello, who was on Kyle Shanahan's staff with the 49ers before he was hired by the Broncos, each had a hand in him coming back to practices.
"It's great to be back ... great to see them, great to be a part of it,'' Shanahan said Saturday. "... John's invited me back several times over the years ... And Vic and the coaches, with Scangarello being here ... it was time to get back here and kind of enjoy it and the years we had with the Broncos.''
At 146-91 (including playoffs) in 14 seasons as Broncos coach and a two-time Super Bowl winner, Shanahan is the franchise's all-time winningest coach. He closed out his career with the Redskins from 2010 to 2013 and was asked Saturday if he misses coaching.
"You always miss coaching, but it's been five years,'' Shanahan said. "I made the decision a long time ago, right when I got fired (by the Redskins), I said if I didn't get the right job right away, where you had a chance to win a Super Bowl, that I was probably going to do what I'm doing, being a dad, kind of following your son, the organization, being a part of it.''
"Mike's always been a big part of this organization,'' Elway said. "And it's nice to get him back out, in my mind it was never really closed, but it was nice to get the communication back -- I've played some golf with Mike ... it's always good to see him out here because I always enjoy talking football with him ... glad he was able to come back and know that this is home to him.''


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VICTORIA - The credit rating on B.C.'s debt has been downgraded to AAA-negative from AAA-stable by Moody's Investors Service because of a softening economy and weaker commodity prices.
The change follows the release of the province's second quarterly financial report last month by Finance Minister Mike de Jong, who reported the province's annual deficit was projected to reach $1.47 billion, up from an earlier forecast of $1.1 billion.
De Jong blamed the problem on falling property taxes and lower prices for coal and natural gas, but insisted the government will still balance the budget next February.
NDP finance critic Bruce Ralston said Wednesday the Moody's downgrade makes if difficult to believe de Jong will be able to do that.
But Attorney General Shirley Bond, who is also vice-chair of the Treasury Board, said the change instead is a warning sign that serves to strengthen the government's resolve to control spending.
"No question, tough choices will be required, but we have the discipline to make them and the ability to do it in a balanced way that preserves funding for health care, education and critical infrastructure," she said in a statement released later in the day.
"We cannot forget that a major cause of the global economic downturn is economic jurisdictions that overspent."
Bond noted the province has had seven consecutive credit upgrades from major credit rating agencies since 2004, which she said is a testament to the government's fiscal discipline.
Moody's Assistant Vice President Jennifer Wong said the company lowered B.C.'s debt credit rating because of the risks the province faces in trying to check the rise in debt, in the face of a softening economy and weaker commodity prices.
However, she said the province is working to hit its fiscal targets and if it's able to do that the credit rating could be raised back to stable.
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What if you could make one immediate change in your life that would significantly decrease global warming and other damage to the environment? Great news: you can. Stop eating meat.
Perhaps the best thing you can do to save the environment is eat a plant-based diet, according to the United Nations, Sierra Club, Worldwatch Institute, Al Gore's Live Earth, and many others. Even replacing just some of the meat you eat with grains, vegetables, legumes, fruit, and other plant-based foods can make a big difference.
Just changing the source of your meat won't do much. As a recent New York Times op-ed by James E. McWilliams explained, there is no such thing as ecologically sustainable meat. Local, organic, free-range — all of it takes or will lead to a surprisingly large toll on the environment.
Meat production may be the most important reason for global warming, which results almost entirely from a combination of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Raising animals for food is a major source of carbon dioxide and the single largest source of the other two gases: 37% of methane and 65% of nitrous oxide emissions, as Kathy Freston reports in The Huffington Post. The United Nations has concluded that eating a vegan diet "is vital to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change," according to The Guardian.
The livestock industry is largely responsible for deforestation, which obliterates ecosystems that would otherwise absorb carbon dioxide. According to Freston, "Animal agriculture takes up an incredible 70% of all agricultural land, and 30% of the total land surface of the planet. As a result, farmed animals are probably the biggest cause of slashing and burning the world's forests. Today, 70% of former Amazon rainforest is used for pastureland, and feed crops cover much of the remainder." Clearing all this land for pasture and feed crops also shrinks or eliminates the habitats for countless species of wildlife.
Just cutting back on your meat consumption has an impact. Al Gore's Live Earth organization reports that "If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save: 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months and 70 million gallons of gas, enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare." Joining the"Meatless Monday" movement, which encourages people to eat no meat for one day every week, could go a long way.
Driving a Prius doesn't even approach the impact of eating less meat. According to the Environmental Defense Fund, "if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. roads." A University of Chicago study confirms that in terms of fossil fuel consumption, there is "an order of magnitude" difference "between dietary and personal transportation choices." What is on your plate matters much more than what is in your garage.
Climate change isn't the only ill that the meat industry generates. Freston notes that "raising animals for food is a primary cause of land degradation, air pollution, water shortage, water pollution [including the ammonia that causes acid rain, and] loss of biodiversity." The livestock industry alone is "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global," according to the U.N.'s report.
We don't need to eat all this meat. We'd actually be healthier without it, as meat consumption plays a role in causing our three biggest killers: heart disease, cancer, and stroke. To help protect the environment and your health, visit the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine for a free Vegetarian Starter Kit. The earth will thank you.
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So it seems that hipster cosplay is officially a thing, but at least it's a pretty funny thing when it's done well. Hipsters Ariel and Harry prove that cosplay — and making fun of hipsters — is never too mainstream.
Hipster Ariel is most likely inspired by the Hipster Ariel meme, but that doesn't mean that the rest of genre fiction is safe from hipsterization. Now all Harry needs is a trucker-style Sorting Hat, and he'll be all set.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's decision to postpone the inauguration of President Hugo Chavez as he remains in Cuba battling cancer has prompted furious accusations from the opposition that the government is violating the constitution and should tell the country how ill the socialist leader really is.
But government officials argued the inauguration can legally take place at a later date before the Supreme Court and it is unclear what, if anything, the opposition can do to prevent the delay given courts perceived as being pro-government, public sympathy for Chavez as he fights for his life and varying interpretations of an at-times vague constitution.
Vice-President Nicolas Maduro broke the news that Chavez would not be able to attend the scheduled inauguration in a letter to National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello. Then, later Tuesday, Venezuela's National Assembly, which is dominated by Chavez's allies, approved the proposal for Chavez to be sworn in at a later date before the Supreme Court.
The news sparked passionate debate in the assembly, with the opposition coalition arguing that if he is not sworn in on Thursday, Chavez must temporarily step aside and let the head of the National Assembly, Cabello, assume the presidency. Coalition leader Ramon Guillermo Aveledo wrote to the Organization of American States explaining their concerns, but other opposition leaders say there no plans for protests on inauguration day.
"What I won't do is put people to fight against people," opposition leader Henrique Capriles told reporters. "Our country doesn't need hate. Our country doesn't need fights."
At the heart of the dispute are differing interpretations of Venezuela's constitution, which says the oath of office should be taken before lawmakers in the National Assembly on Jan. 10, this Thursday. But the charter adds that if he is unable to be sworn in by the National Assembly, the president may take the oath before the Supreme Court.
Opponents argue that even if the oath is taken before the Supreme Court it should be on Jan. 10. Chavez's allies argue that the charter doesn't explicitly specify on what day it must take place, and this allows them to delay Thursday's inauguration.
While leaders of both the pro- and anti-Chavez camps say they don't expect violence to break out Thursday, the dispute could give the opposition grounds to question the legitimacy of government officials serving past the scheduled inauguration date.
Capriles said earlier Tuesday that Chavez's current term constitutionally ends Thursday and that the Supreme Court should rule in the matter.
"There is no monarchy here, and we aren't in Cuba," he said. However, he added that he saw no reason to bring a formal challenge to the court because it was obliged to issue a ruling on the dispute.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a legal challenge brought by an individual lawyer, Otoniel Pautt Andrade, who had argued that it would violate the constitution for Cabello to refuse to assume the presidency provisionally if Chavez were unfit to be sworn in on the set date. The court's ruling didn't provide a detailed interpretation of the constitution.
In the debate set off by Tuesday's announcement that Chavez would not return from Cuba for the inauguration, opposition lawmaker Omar Barboza urged Chavez's allies to accept Cabello as interim president while Chavez recovers, saying that this was to avoid an "institutional crisis."
Barboza said it's clear that a "temporary absence" should now be declared, which would give the president 90 days to recover, and which could be renewed for another 90 days.
Some lawmakers called for a medical team to be formed to determine the state of Chavez's health. Some also questioned why the letter announcing the decision was signed by the vice-president rather than Chavez himself.
"Who's governing Venezuela? In Venezuela, Havana is governing, and that's the problem we have," opposition congressman Julio Borges said during the debate.
Maduro has called the swearing-in a "formality" and said the opposition is erroneously interpreting the constitution. Chavez has said that if he's unable to continue on as president, Maduro should take his place and run in an election to replace him.
As he announced lawmakers' approval, Cabello said: "President Chavez, this honourable assembly grants you all the time you need to tend to your illness."
Jorge Rodriguez, a Caracas district mayor and campaign manager in recent elections, accused the opposition of fomenting a "conspiracy" against Chavez's government. He insisted that Chavez remains president despite his health problems and pointed out that the National Assembly had granted the president permission to travel to Cuba for his operation.
Legal experts have joined politicians in debating whether the inauguration can legally be postponed.
constitutional law expert Henrique Sanchez Falcon, a professor at Central University of Venezuela, called the government's position "something that's absolutely contrary to what's established under the constitution, which says that the term lasts six years."
The constitutional debate takes place against a backdrop of charges that the government isn't giving complete information about the health of Chavez, who underwent his fourth cancer-related surgery in Cuba last month and hasn't spoken publicly in a month.
The government said on Monday that Chavez was in a "stable situation" receiving treatment due to a severe respiratory infection. The government says he's coping with "respiratory deficiency," but hasn't said how severe it is.
Capriles urged Latin American leaders not to come to Venezuela, asking them to instead demand that the Venezuelan Constitution be upheld.
The governments of Bolivian President Evo Morales and Uruguayan President Jose Mujica announced that the leaders would travel to Caracas, where the Venezuelan government said various Latin American leaders were expected to attend a gathering on Thursday.
AP Interactive: http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2012/venezuela/


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The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, six and a half million square feet, thirty thousand people, more than seventeen miles of corridors, but it was built with just three street doors, each one of them opening into a guarded pedestrian lobby. I chose the southeast option, the main concourse entrance, the one nearest the Metro and the bus station, because it was the busiest and the most popular with civilian workers, and I wanted plenty of civilian workers around, preferably a whole long unending stream of them, for insurance purposes, mostly against getting shot on sight. Arrests go bad all the time, sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose, so I wanted witnesses. I wanted independent eyeballs on me, at least at the beginning. I remember the date, of course. It was Tuesday, the eleventh of March, 1997, and it was the last day I walked into that place as a legal employee of the people who built it.
A long time ago.
The eleventh of March 1997 was also by chance exactly four and a half years before the world changed, on that other future Tuesday, and so like a lot of things in the old days the security at the main concourse entrance was serious without being hysterical. Not that I invited hysteria. Not from a distance. I was wearing my Class A uniform, all of it clean, pressed, polished, and spit-shined, all of it covered with thirteen years' worth of medal ribbons, badges, insignia, and citations. I was thirty-six years old, standing tall and walking ramrod straight, a totally squared away U.S. Army Military Police major in every respect, except that my hair was too long and I hadn't shaved for five days.
Back then Pentagon security was run by the Defense Protective Service, and from forty yards I saw ten of their guys in the lobby, which I thought was far too many, which made me wonder whether they were all theirs or whether some of them were actually ours, working undercover, waiting for me. Most of our skilled work is done by Warrant Officers, and they do a lot of it by pretending to be someone else. They impersonate colonels and generals and enlisted men, and anyone else they need to, and they're good at it. All in a day's work for them to throw on DPS uniforms and wait for their target. From thirty yards I didn't recognize any of them, but then, the army is a very big institution, and they would have chosen men I had never met before.
I walked on, part of a broad wash of people heading across the concourse to the doors, some men and women in uniform, either Class As like my own or the old woodland-pattern BDUs we had back then, and some men and women obviously military but out of uniform, in suits or work clothes, and some obvious civilians, some of each category carrying bags or briefcases or packages, all of each category slowing and sidestepping and shuffling as the broad wash of people narrowed to a tight arrowhead and then narrowed further still to lonely single file or collegial two-by-two, as folks got ready to stream inside. I lined up with them, on my own, single file, behind a woman with pale unworn hands and ahead of a guy in a suit that had gone shiny at the elbows. Civilians, both of them, desk workers, probably analysts of some kind, which was exactly what I wanted. Independent eyeballs. It was close to noon. There was sun in the sky and the March air had a little warmth in it. Spring, in Virginia. Across the river the cherry trees were about to wake up. The famous blossom was about to break out. All over the innocent nation airline tickets and SLR cameras lay on hall tables, ready for sightseeing trips to the capital.
I waited in line. Way ahead of me the DPS guys were doing what security guys do. Four of them were occupied with specific tasks, two manning an inquiry counter and two checking official badge holders and then waving them through an open turnstile. Two were standing directly behind the glass inside the doors, looking out, heads high, eyes front, scanning the approaching crowd. Four were hanging back in the shadows behind the turnstiles, just clumped together, shooting the shit. All ten were armed.
It was the four behind the turnstiles that worried me. No question that back in 1997 the Department of Defense was seriously puffed up and overmanned in relation to the threats we faced then, but even so it was unusual to see four on-duty guys with absolutely nothing to do. Most commands at least made their surplus personnel look busy. But these four had no obvious role. I stretched up tall and peered ahead and tried to get a look at their shoes. You can learn a lot from shoes. Undercover disguises often don't get that far, especially in a uniformed environment. The DPS was basically a beat cop role, so to the extent that a choice was available, DPS guys would go for cop shoes, big comfortable things appropriate for walking and standing all day. Undercover MP Warrant Officers might use their own shoes, which would be subtly different.
But I couldn't see their shoes. It was too dark inside, and too far away.
The line shuffled along, at a decent pre-9/11 clip. No sullen impatience, no frustration, no fear. Just old-style routine. The woman in front of me was wearing perfume. I could smell it coming off the nape of her neck. I liked it. The two guys behind the glass noticed me about ten yards out. Their gaze moved off the woman and onto me. It rested on me a beat longer than it needed to, and then it moved on to the guy behind.
Then it came back. Both men looked me over quite openly, up and down, side to side, four or five seconds, and then I shuffled forward and their attention moved behind me again. They didn't say anything to each other. Didn't say anything to anyone else, either. No warnings, no alerts. Two possible interpretations. One, best case, I was just a guy they hadn't seen before. Or maybe I stood out because I was bigger and taller than anyone within a hundred yards. Or because I was wearing a major's gold oak leaves and ribbons for some heavy-duty medals, including a Silver Star, like a real poster boy, but because of the hair and the beard I also looked like a real caveman, which visual dissonance might have been enough reason for the long second glance, just purely out of interest. Sentry duty can be boring, and unusual sights are always welcome.
Or two, worst case, they were merely confirming to themselves that some expected event had indeed happened, and that all was going according to plan. Like they had prepared and studied photographs and were saying to themselves: OK, he's here, right on time, so now we just wait two more minutes until he steps inside, and then we take him down.
Because I was expected, and I was right on time. I had a twelve o'clock appointment and matters to discuss with a particular colonel in a third-floor office in the C ring, and I was certain I would never get there. To walk head-on into a hard arrest was a pretty blunt tactic, but sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.
The guy ahead of the woman ahead of me stepped inside the doors and held up a badge that was attached to his neck by a lanyard. He was waved onward. The woman in front of me moved and then stopped short, because right at that moment the two DPS watchers chose to come out from behind the glass. The woman paused in place and let them squeeze out in front of her, against the pressing flow. Then she resumed her progress and stepped inside, and the two guys stopped and stood exactly where she had been, three feet in front of me, but facing in the opposite direction, toward me, not away from me.
They were blocking the door. They were looking right at me. I was pretty sure they were genuine DPS personnel. They were wearing cop shoes, and their uniforms had eased and stretched and molded themselves to their individual physiques over a long period of time. These were not disguises, snatched from a locker and put on for the first time that morning. I looked beyond the two guys, inside, at their four partners who were doing nothing, and I tried to judge the fit of their clothes, by way of comparison. It was hard to tell.
In front of me the guy on my right said, "Sir, may we help you?"
I asked, "With what?"
"Where are you headed today?"
"Do I need to tell you that?"
"No sir, absolutely not," the guy said. "But we could speed you along a little, if you like."
Probably via an inconspicuous door into a small locked room, I thought. I figured they had civilian witnesses on their mind too, the same way I did. I said, "I'm happy to wait my turn. I'm almost there, anyway."
The two guys said nothing in reply to that. Stalemate. Amateur hour. To try to start the arrest outside was dumb. I could push and shove and turn and run and be lost in the crowd in the blink of an eye. And they wouldn't shoot. Not outside. There were too many people on the concourse. Too much collateral damage. This was 1997, remember. March eleventh. Four and a half years before the new rules. Much better to wait until I was inside the lobby. The two stooges could close the doors behind me and form up shoulder to shoulder in front of them while I was getting the bad news at the desk. At that point theoretically I could turn back and fight my way past them again, but it would take me a second or two, and in that second or two the four guys with nothing to do could shoot me in the back about a thousand times.
And if I charged forward they could shoot me in the front. And where would I go anyway? To escape into the Pentagon was no kind of a good idea. The world's largest office building. Thirty thousand people. Five floors. Two basements. Seventeen miles of corridors. There are ten radial hallways between the rings, and they say a person can make it between any two random points inside a maximum seven minutes, which was presumably calculated with reference to the army's official quick- march pace of four miles an hour, which meant if I was running hard I could be anywhere within about three minutes. But where? I could find a broom closet and steal bag lunches and hold out a day or two, but that would be all. Or I could take hostages and try to argue my case, but I had never seen that kind of thing succeed.
So I waited.
The DPS guy in front of me on my right said, "Sir, you be sure and have a nice day now," and then he moved past me, and his partner moved past me on my other side, both of them just strolling slow, two guys happy to be out in the air, patrolling, varying their viewpoint. Maybe not so dumb after all. They were doing their jobs and following their plan. They had tried to decoy me into a small locked room, but they had failed, no harm, no foul, so now they were turning the page straight to plan B. They would wait until I was inside and the doors were closed, and then they would jump into crowd control mode, dispersing the incoming people, keeping them safe in case shots had to be fired inside. I assumed the lobby glass was supposed to be bulletproof, but the smart money never bets on the DoD having gotten exactly what it paid for.
The door was right in front of me. It was open. I took a breath and stepped into the lobby. Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.
Chapter 2
The woman with the perfume and the pale hands was already deep into the corridor beyond the open turnstile. She had been waved through. Straight ahead of me was the two-man inquiry desk. To my left were the two guys checking badges. The open turnstile was between their hips. The four spare guys were still doing nothing beyond it. They were still clustered together, quiet and watchful, like an independent team. I still couldn't see their shoes.
I took another breath and stepped up to the counter.
Like a lamb to the slaughter.
The desk guy on the left looked at me and said, "Yes, sir." Fatigue and resignation in his voice. A response, not a question, as if I had already spoken. He looked young and reasonably smart. Genuine DPS, presumably. MP Warrant Officers are quick studies, but they wouldn't be running a Pentagon inquiry desk, however deeply under they were supposed to be.
The desk guy looked at me again, expectantly, and I said, "I have a twelve o'clock appointment."
"Who with?"
"Colonel Frazer," I said.
The guy made out like he didn't recognize the name. The world's largest office building. Thirty thousand people. He leafed through a book the size of a telephone directory and asked, "Would that be Colonel John James Frazer? Senate Liaison?"
I said, "Yes."
Or: Guilty as charged.
Way to my left the four spare guys were watching me. But not moving. Yet.
The guy at the desk didn't ask my name. Partly because he had been briefed, presumably, and shown photographs, and partly because my Class A uniform included my name on a nameplate, worn as per regulations on my right breast pocket flap, exactly centered, its upper edge exactly a quarter of an inch below the top seam.
Seven letters: REACHER.
Or, eleven letters: Arrest me now.
The guy at the inquiry desk said, "Colonel John James Frazer is in 3C315. You know how to get there?"
I said, "Yes." Third floor, C ring, nearest to radial corridor number three, bay number fifteen. The Pentagon's version of map coordinates, which it needed, given that it covered twenty-nine whole acres of floor space.
The guy said, "Sir, you have a great day," and his guileless gaze moved past my shoulder to the next in line. I stood still for a moment. They were tying it up with a bow. They were making it perfect. The general common law test for criminal culpability is expressed by the Latin actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, which means, roughly, doing things won't necessarily get you in trouble unless you actually mean to do them. Action plus intention is the standard. They were waiting for me to prove my intention. They were waiting for me to step through the turnstile and into the labyrinth. Which explained why the four spare guys were on their side of the gate, not mine. Crossing the line would make it real. Maybe there were jurisdiction issues. Maybe lawyers had been consulted. Frazer wanted my ass gone for sure, but he wanted his own ass covered just as much.
I took another breath and crossed the line and made it real. I walked between the two badge checkers and squeezed between the cold alloy flanks of the turnstile. The bar was retracted. There was nothing to hit with my thighs. I stepped out on the far side and paused. The four spare guys were on my right. I looked at their shoes. Army regulations are surprisingly vague about shoes. Plain black lace-up oxfords or close equivalents, conservative, no designs on them, minimum of three pairs of eyelets, closed toe, maximum two-inch heel. That's all the fine print says. The four guys on my right were all in compliance, but they weren't wearing cop shoes. Not like the two guys outside. They were sporting four variations on the same classic theme. High shines, tight laces, a little creasing and wear here and there. Maybe they were genuine DPS. Maybe they weren't. No way of telling. Not right then.
I was looking at them, and they were looking at me, but no one spoke. I looped around them and headed deeper into the building. I used the E ring counterclockwise and turned left at the first radial hallway.
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Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997.
A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A cover-up. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.
Reacher is ordered undercover to find out everything he can and then to vanish. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Finding unexpected layers to the case, Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission—and turn him into a man to be feared.
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Invented by nature but genetically manipulated by man, a mutation of a deadly virus has fallen into the wrong hands. Angered by sanctions placed against its nuclear program, a rogue state is determined to release it. Their chosen method: one of the Black Widowsfemale suicide terrorists of Chechen descent with a deadly reputation for slaughter that rivals any other group.
The only thing standing in the Black Widows way is the Taskforce, an extra-legal counterterrorism unit. Racing against time to prevent a global pandemic, Taskforce operator Pike Logan and his partner Jennifer Cahill follow the trail across Southeast Asia to the United States, only to learn that the enemy they face may not be the enemy they should fear.
The Widows Strike ties together government-sanctioned terrorist activities, nefarious multinational conglomerates, and frighteningly plausible science. Infused with authenticity from Brad Taylors decades of service as a Delta Force commander, its an explosive ride alongside Americas counterterrorism operators that will leave readers breathless.
Invented by nature but genetically manipulated by man, a mutation of the H5N1 virus—aka the "bird flu"—has fallen into the wrong hands. Angered by sanctions placed against its nuclear program, a rogue state is determined to release it. Their chosen method: one of the Black Widows—female suicide terrorists of Chechen descent who have the highest kill rate of any terrorist organization. By infecting her, then instructing her to detonate in the United States, her body will become the real weapon, spraying the virus into a crowd.
The only thing standing in the Black Widow's way is the Taskforce, an extra-legal counterterrorism unit. Racing against time to prevent a global pandemic, Taskforce operator Pike Logan and his partner Jennifer Cahill follow the trail across Southeast Asia to the United States, only to learn that the enemy they face may not be the enemy they should fear.
The Widow's Strike ties together government-sanctioned terrorist activities, nefarious multinational conglomerates, and frighteningly plausible science. Infused with authenticity from Brad Taylor's decades of service as a Delta Force commander, it's an explosive ride alongside America's counterterrorism operators that will leave readers breathless.


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Before Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a shootout with police, he was a husband and father. Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, an artist, dancer and college dropout from suburban Rhode Island, converted to Islam to marry him and bear his child.
Investigators want to know what she knows.
Since the Boston Marathon bombing April 15, Katherine Tsarnaev, 24, left the Cambridge, Mass., apartment where she lived with Tamerlan and has been staying with her parents in their corner-lot, two-story beige home in wooded North Kingstown, R.I. FBI agents entered the house Monday, part of the effort to piece together details of the accused terrorist's life.
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Investigators have told U.S. lawmakers that Tamerlan, 26, and his brother, Dzhokhar, 19, learned radical Islam and bomb making online. The Russell family's lawyer, Amato DeLuca, said last week that Katherine had no foreknowledge of the attacks.
"No indication, no inkling, no inclination, no hint, no nothing," DeLuca said in an interview. "She was as shocked as anybody, believe me."
Still, questions abound about what those closest to the suspects did or didn't know. Authorities are examining whether the suspects had help, though there's no evidence so far that they did, according to a U.S. official who asked not to be identified because of the continuing investigation.
Investigators found female DNA on a fragment from one of the bombs, another U.S. official briefed on the probe said Monday. The genetic material may have come from a number of sources and its discovery doesn't necessarily mean that additional people were involved, said the official, who asked not to be identified in discussing an open case.
DeLuca said in an email Monday that "Katie continues to assist in the investigation in any way that she can," without elaborating.
The FBI took DNA samples from Katherine Tsarnaev on Monday, according to one of the U.S. officials briefed on the probe. Jason Pack, an FBI spokesman, declined to say whether the agency may seek a subpoena to interview her or whether she's cooperating voluntarily.
"We aren't permitted to discuss specific aspects of our case," he said.
Since the bombing, Katherine Tsarnaev has rarely left the home in North Kingstown, which is 70 miles south of Boston. On her few excursions, she emerged in long skirts and a hijab head covering, ducking photographers.
She hasn't granted public interviews. Her family has issued statements only through their lawyer, expressing condolences for the bombing victims — three dead and more than 260 wounded — and Katherine Tsarnaev's sadness at Tamerlan's death.
A swarm of news-media cars and trucks has been stationed outside the home for days, along with official-looking black sedans and police cars.
The troubled ethnic Chechen immigrant family into which Katherine Tsarnaev married at 21 bore little resemblance to her own. Her existence went from a childhood in a leafy suburb to one in which she shared a cramped apartment in Cambridge with Tamerlan, their daughter, and Tamerlan's parents until their return to Russia.
Katherine "Katie" Russell Tsarnaev was born in Texas on Feb. 6, 1989, according to her marriage certificate dated June 21, 2010. She's the eldest of three daughters of Warren Russell, an emergency medicine physician, and Judith, a registered nurse.
On Coriander Lane in North Kingstown, neighbor Dave Mather, a 44-year-old biology teacher, recalled all the Russell girls as polite. They played together on the lawn of their property, often while the parents gardened.
In the past few years, Katherine Tsarnaev had adopted conservative religious dress, Mather said as he trimmed his grass last week. She visited her parents often, waving and smiling whenever she spotted neighbors from the cul-de-sac.
At North Kingstown High School, Katherine Tsarnaev had excelled in drawing, according to Amos Trout Paine, 42, an art teacher who left the district in 2010. Paine said he hadn't been in contact with her since graduation.
In 12th grade, she enrolled in independent studies to work on a portfolio for college applications, Paine said. Sometimes she talked about a career in graphic design.
"She had a good amount of talent," Paine said by phone from his home in Providence last week. Socially, he described her as "part of the whole crew," not sticking to a particular group.
Tsarnaev graduated from North Kingstown High School in 2007 and landed in trouble that summer. Warwick police arrested her on July 26 on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge. The case was dismissed Aug. 20, according to records maintained by Rhode Island's Third District Court in Kent County.
The arrest was out of character for a "great student," Paine said.
Her character changed still more dramatically after high school.
Tsarnaev went to Suffolk University in Boston to study communications, and she met Tamerlan, a former boxer who in 2009 had been charged with assaulting a live-in girlfriend.
National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed three college roommates of Katherine Tsarnaev who described Tamerlan as controlling, manipulative and angry. The women, whom NPR didn't name, said he called her names like "slut" and "prostitute" and demanded that she convert to Islam, NPR said.
Katherine Tsarnaev married Tamerlan at a mosque in the Dorchester neighborhood. She adopted Islam, dropped out of college and bore Tamerlan's child, a daughter who's now 2½.
She cut off contact with her college friends after the marriage, according to the NPR report.
Katherine Tsarnaev appears to have no presence on social-media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook — practically a rite of passage for a woman of her generation.
Few childhood friends and acquaintances tracked down by news outlets including Bloomberg kept in touch with her beyond high school.
One relative said her "whole path" caused friction.
"There is an estrangement in the family," Elizabeth Russell, her aunt, said in a brief phone interview last week from her home in Medfield, Mass. "I haven't seen Katie in four years."
Her fortunes in Cambridge after marrying Tamerlan were unlike those of many doctors' daughters. She received food stamps and welfare benefits from September 2011 to November 2012, according to a letter from the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance.
Katherine Tsarnaev worked as many as 80 hours a week as a home health-care aide, seldom seeing her husband as he cared for their daughter at home, DeLuca said.
The Tsarnaev brothers worshipped at the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, though Katherine Tsarnaev was never spotted there, said Anwar Kazmi, a member of the group's board of trustees.
The last time Katherine Tsarnaev saw her husband was April 18, DeLuca said, the day before he died. Since then, she's been crying a lot, he said.
"She's very upset, very distressed. It's so hard for her, you know, she's got this little girl, she's just trying to get her mind around these events — people dying, people maimed, her husband dying," he said.
"She keeps saying, 'I don't understand why this happened.' "


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A group of six medieval Healers was immortalised on a portrait hung at the Grand Staircase at Hogwarts Castle. A human skeleton was also included in the portrait. The portrait was placed near the Fat Lady, on the seventh-floor level.
Attack of the Fat Lady31st of October 1993, Sirius Black attacked Fat Lady's portrait on a failed attempt to gain entrance to Gryffindor Tower. The Healers most likely witnessed the attack, as they had horrified looks on their faces afterwards.[1]
Dolores Umbridge as Headmistress of Hogwarts
Dolores Umbridge replaced Albus Dumbledore as Head of Hogwarts School in 1996. One of her first actions as Headmistress was getting rid of all the portraits at the Grand Staircase. The Healers' was one, if not the last, to be removed. Argus Filch, the caretaker, removed the portrait off the wall, and carelessly handled it, causing the group of Healers to fall as he laughed. With the reinstatement of Dumbledore as Headmaster at the end of the school year, all the portraits were hung again, including the Healers'.[2]
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- The Healers were portrayed by David Heyman, David Barron, Lionel Wigram, Tim Lewis, Lorne Orleans, and John Trehy in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.[3]
- These individuals may have died sometime prior to 1993, as many portraits hung at Hogwarts Castle depict deceased individuals.
- David Heyman, the producer of the Harry Potter film series played as one of them in a cameo.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
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At just ¥4,280 (£18.45), the ' Kaiteki de Earphone ' ('Comfortable Earphones') in-ear 'phones are around £100 cheaper than most entry-level noise-cancelling (NC) models, so eyebrows will surely remain raised until a little quality testing can be done.
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The OpenStack open source cloud project completed its first public Design Summit last week, which attracted more than 250 people from 90 companies and 14 countries. Development teams met to plan the next two releases, which are currently code-named "Bexar" and "Cactus."
This first public meeting was held as a four-day event in San Antonio, Texas, and was hosted by Rackspace Hosting, a founding member of the open source project. The summit featured two separate tracks, one consisting of developer-led sessions to plan the next two code releases and one for interested users and the partner ecosystem to discuss deployment and commercial opportunities.
The Summit also featured what was labeled as an "InstallFest" where attendees were able to test and document the installation process on a live, on-site environment provided by Dell and powered by the company's PowerEdge C server line.
"From development, to documentation and deployment, the OpenStack Design Summit has enabled the OpenStack community to come together to learn and make the key decisions for the next two code releases," said Jim Curry, general manager of OpenStack.
"The themes for the week focused on how to execute on enterprise and service provider deployments and the immense opportunity that exists for the commercial ecosystem," he added.
Dozens of developers are reported to have contributed to the first "Austin" code release in October this year — and a similar number engaged in proposing new features for the next "Bexar" release scheduled for early 2011.


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GEORG FRIEDRICH HAENDEL Clori, Tirsi e Fileno
La RisonanzaFabio Bonizzoni
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Roberta Invernizzi, soprano Yetzabel Arias Fernández, soprano Romina Basso, alto Andrea Mion, oboe Elisabeth Baumer, oboe & recorder Leila Schayegh, solo violin Carlo Lazzaroni, Rossella Borsoni, Silvia Colli, Raffaello Negri, Ana Liz Ojeda, Elena Telò, violins Gianni De Rosa, Efix Puleo, violas Caterina Dell'Agnello, cello Rebeca Ferri, cello & recorder Vanni Moretto, Davide Nava, double basses Gabriele Palomba, archlute Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord
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Clori, Tirsi e FilenoLe Cantate Italiane di Handel V Rome, 1707
1-29 Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (Cor fedele, in vano speri) [HWV 83]
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In May 1707 George Frideric Handel entered into the service of the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli, and under his protection, embarked upon a tremendous career. As well as making a name for himself as a spectacular virtuoso on the harpsichord and organ, through his plentiful concerts in the Roman academies, Handel lost no time in also becoming a highly sought-after composer through his felicitous and apparently inexhaustible inspiration. In addition to a significant number of cantatas for solo voice and basso continuo, Handel also involved himself in composing cantatas for larger numbers of voices, combining these with a large supporting orchestral group.
The score of Clori, Tirsi e Fileno is certainly a complex one, as much for its dramatic plotline as for its individually-chosen musical options: the result is a genuine opera in miniature, equipped with real refinement and lightness. Consequently, Clori, Tirsi e Fileno turns - even more so than with other Italian cantata works by the caro Sassone - into an authentic laboratory in which Handel experiments with the most diverse musical and dramatic forms, obtaining by this method a capacity to elaborate that special language which was to locate it firmly within the glories of the theatre, from the past and the present.
Fabio Bonizzoni's attention on record to the music of Handel - which has, thus far, yielded seven discs devoted to the early Italian-texted cantatas - has just now had the good fortune to receive this year's Stanley Sadie Handel Recording Prize for Apollo e Dafne, the final release in the present series for Glossa. This is the third time that Bonizzoni and his period-instrument ensemble La Risonanza have won this prestigious prize for their series of "Le Cantate Italiane di Handel" (previous winners were the first release, Le Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili and the fifth, Clori, Tirsi e Fileno); three other recordings have also featured as runners-up. [read more...]


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Identity fraud cases show significant increases
As posted on July 22, 2012 on www.ajc.com
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Identity fraud is on the rise throughout metro Atlanta, with some counties witnessing a twofold increase in the crime compared with last year, according to police statistics.
Reported offenses doubled in Cobb and Fulton counties and increased 31.5 percent in Gwinnett County. A Federal Trade Commission report released earlier this year ranked Georgia No. 2 in the country for identity theft complaints in 2011. Some authorities attribute the surge, in part, to the struggling economy.
But despite its proliferation, the crime still isn't always a high priority, said GBI agent Terry Sosebee of the Office of Privacy and Compliance. "Crimes that get the most attention involve violent crime, homicide, kidnapping," Sosebee said. "[Fraud] doesn't compare well to drugs."
Local police, however, say the crime is a major concern. In fact, Gwinnett police have dedicated a unit with two sergeants and 10 detectives to investigating the crime, Cpl. Edwin Ritter said.
"We take every crime serious and investigate them seriously," said Ritter, a spokesman for the Gwinnett department.
For some other agencies in the state, Sosebee said, finding the resources to vigorously investigate identity fraud can be a challenge.
"You can't find a grant program if you wanted to set up a unit," he said. "There are so many victims out there because these guys are just running amok."
In 2008, Sosebee led an eight-person identity theft task force established after the state gave the GBI jurisdiction to investigate the crime. A year later, budget cuts forced the agency to shutter the unit.
"I felt like we were making some headway," said Sosebee, who now educates victims and assists local authorities who must now investigate the crimes themselves. He said they are working hard but need more training and experience.
Catching identity thieves is difficult, Sosebee said, because much of the crime happens online or through the phone.
"They're occurring when no one is around or when someone can't see it," he said. "Criminals in identity theft are fairly intelligent people; if they took the intellect they seem to have and put it to good things, they'd probably earn just as well."
Cpl. Jake Smith, a Gwinnett police spokesman, said tough economic conditions and improved methods have contributed to the rise.
The low probability of jail time is another incentive to thieves, said Smith, who characterized the crime as "higher reward for lower risk."
Punishment for identity fraud under Georgia law ranges from one to 10 years of imprisonment and a fine up to $100,000. A first-time offender, however, may not even go to jail, Smith said.
Mashara Williams said that's what happened to the person who stole her identity in 2008, even though the offender bought a car, opened an insurance policy and received traffic tickets in her name. Part of the punishment in lieu of jail time was admitting to all the ways she fraudulently used the identification.
"If she had admitted to everything she had done, I would have felt like it was fair," said Williams, an Atlanta architect.
But she didn't. During a routine traffic stop in November in Decatur, Williams — eight months pregnant at the time — was arrested. Police had an arrest warrant stemming from a 2008 traffic citation, but the true offender was the woman who stole Williams' identity.
Thieves obtain financial information in a variety of ways, such as stealing pre-approved credit cards from mailboxes and buying bundles of stolen card numbers through the Internet. Sosebee said business employees with momentary access to credit cards can steal information with an easy-to-use device the size of an iPhone.
"Phishing," where scammers trick people into disclosing their personal information by impersonating a trustworthy organization, is another popular technique. Thieves also rummage through trash to find valuable personal information, such as bank account numbers, Lester said.
They can then use the information to open credit cards, take out loans or file tax returns in the victim's name.
"It's an easy way to make fast cash," said Cpl. Kay Lester, a Fulton police spokeswoman
Chris Couillou of the FTC said it's crucial that people report the crimes and fill out the necessary paperwork to stop the misuse.
"Your identity information is like the money in your wallet," he said, "and you need to treat it that way."
Identity fraud cases
Cases of fraud involving identity theft have increased significantly this year in metro Atlanta. The figures below for Cobb and Fulton counties compare the first six months of 2011 against the first six months of this year. The figures for Gwinnett County compare a period from Jan. 1 to July 6 for both years.
Cobb County
2011: 469
2012: 968
Increase: 106 percent
Fulton County
2011: 130
2012: 268
Increase: 106 percent
Gwinnett County
2011: 808
2012: 1,063
Increase: 31.5%
Information was not available from Clayton and DeKalb counties.
Steps to protect yourself
To guard your identity, the GBI suggests:
-- Closely monitoring your credit
-- Shredding financial statements and promptly retrieving mail
-- Calling 1-888-567-8688 to stop pre-approved credit cards from being sent to you
Julie Oinonen, a Georgia attorney, advises identity theft victims:
--To immediately close any compromised accounts and file a police report
-- In cases where bank information is stolen, to obtain a written affidavit from the institution stating you've been a victim of fraud
-- To submit a written fraud victim statement to credit agencies and request they notify you before issuing new credit in your name
To stop pre-approved credit cards, call 1-888-567-8688. For to learn more about freezing your credit, visit consumer.georgia.gov/consumer-topics/credit-freeze


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Sesame Street: Dinosaurs! is a 2008 Sesame Street direct-to-video special. Elmo, Telly and Abby Cadabby discover what would happen if they became dinosaurs. The production features the "Dinosaurs" episode of Elmo's World, scenes from a 2006 episode and the clay animation song "If Elmo Had a Dinosaur" edited in among the original story.
Beginning on May 3rd 2008, Kidtoon Films gave the production a limited theatrical release throughout the month as a weekend matinee. The film played at over 70 theaters across the United States.
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"Have you ever heard of an Elmosaurus? How about a Telly Rex? Join Sesame Street's curious red monster as he explores dinosaurs! What did dinosaurs eat? How did they move? What did they look like? And what would happen if Elmo, Telly, and Abby Cadabby became dinosaurs?!?! All these questions and more are answered in this charming and informative DVD, which features Dorothy, Mr. Noodle, new songs, and a dinosaur on Sesame Street!"
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